title: Effectiveness of a program to facilitate recovery for people with long-term mental illness in Japan.
abstract: Recovery is defined as the process of developing new meaning and purpose in life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness. This study aimed to develop a program to facilitate recovery and examine its effectiveness in a randomized controlled trial. The program was developed with three components that enhance benefit finding, personal meaning, and a sense of happiness. Sixty-three participants with long-term mental illness were randomly allocated to the intervention group (n = 32) or the control group (n = 31). The intervention group attended eight 2-h group sessions, with one held every week. Recovery was assessed at baseline, post-intervention, and at a three-month follow-up. In the per-protocol analysis, after excluding those who dropped out, the intervention group showed significant improvement in recovery compared with the control group (P < 0.05). In the intention-to-treat analysis, a repeated measures analysis of variance did not show any significant intervention effect (time × group) (P > 0.05). The program had the potential to facilitate recovery.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
authors.forename: Rie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: Norito
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawakami
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Harada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008134:Long-Term Care; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D020127:Recovery of Function; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D012923:Social Class; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: benefit finding; mental disorders; positive psychology; psychiatric nursing; randomized controlled trial; recovery